Job cuts | WeWork boss hired rapper to perform for laid off staff

Employers can make staff redundant if they are no longer required or if the business needs to tighten the purse strings. While the layoffs may be an easy decision for the employer, the aftermath of an employer’s redundancy decision is never easy for the employee to take in.

While most bosses would sit an employee down and talk them through the reasons for their redundancy, one boss went against the traditional and professional conventions of making employees redundant: one which shocked many.

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It has been revealed that WeWork CEO Adam Neumann dished out tequila shots and hired the rap band Run-DMC’s Darryl McDaniels to perform to staff just moments after sacking them – Metro reported. The job cuts were understood to be a cost-cutting exercise.

NME reported that staff were summoned to the firm’s HQ in New York in 2016 where seven per cent of the workforce was laid off in one go.